NAZI ACCUSATION

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20032, 2 September 1939, Page 6

NAZI ACCUSATION

POLES NOT EARNEST

NEGOTIATION PROPOSALS

GERMANY’S WEST WALL NO FURTHER DEMANDS (Klee. Tel. Copyright—United Bress Assn.) (Reed. Sept. 2, 1.20 p.m.) LONDON. Sept. 1. In the course of his speech in the Reichstag. Herr Hitler said: — “I am convinced that the Polish Government, under the influence of a Jewish clique of soldiers, is not earnest over the British proposals for negotiation.” Herr Hitler declared that the British Government did not want to initiate negotiations itself, but wanted to bring the Poles to the conference table. I, therefore, worked out the proposals mentioned,” added the Fuehrer. “I have sat here three days without the Poles sending a plenipotentiary. If it is expected that the German Reich and its Fuehrer will tolerate such a thing, then the German nation might as well step down from tiie political stage. Therefore, I have decided to speak to the Poles as they have spoken lo us for months past. “I have given a solemn assurance that we demand nothing from the Western Powers, and will never demand anything. I have time and time again offered Britain our friendship and, if necessary, the closest cooperation. but this cannot only be offered from one side and must be reciprocal. Frontier For All Time “Our western wall represents for ail time our western frontier. We have no further goals there for the future. Other European States partly understand our attitude. “We must, above all, thank Italy who has supported us the whole time, but they will understand that I do not appeal for foreign help in this fateful hour. We will carry on this task ourselves.”

Herr Hitler also said that he had received information that 454 German sentries had been shot.

The Berlin correspondent of the Associated Press of Britain says that the exact text of Herr Hitler's references concerning his not making an appeal to Italy, according io a stenographic report, was: "You will understand, however, that for carrying this fight through, I do not want to appeal for foreign help.”